Christopher Lane

Biography

Christopher Lane is entering his sixth season at the helm of GW diving after being the named GW Swimming & Diving Head Diving Coach in September 2021. Lane has led GW's divers to historic heights, elevating the diving side of the team in his five seasons. Lane, the 2024 A-10 Women's Diving Coach of the Year, has produced success from GW's divers not seen since the 90's. In 2025, Lane's diving contingent sent four student-athletes to NCAA Diving Zone A (Olivia Paquette, Ben Bradley, Holden Wheeler and Michael Wood). Prior to NCAA Diving Zones, GW's divers excelled at the A-10 Championships, claiming one gold medal (Raquette), two silver medals (Paquette & Wood), and one bronze medal (Bradley). After making the podium in both events, Paquette was named the 2025 A-10 Women's Most Outstanding Diver. In 2024, Lane led the Revolutionaries to a historic meet, as the men's and women's divers combined for 174 points, which was the most points from a group of divers in the five years prior to that meet. As a collegiate competitor, Lane started at Ball State University diving with John Wingfield (2008 USA Olympic Team Head Coach) before transferring to Arizona, where he was a PAC-10 finalist and NCAA Zones qualifier. In 2019, Lane came to Foggy Bottom to pursue his MPH through the Milken Institute School of Public Health, and he’s spent the past three seasons working with the Buff & Blue, a run that’s seen the program win 3 consecutive men’s and women’s titles. Since taking the helm at